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Search phrase: rustic

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PlayKey LineModern TextOriginal Text
As You Like ItAYL I.i.6goldenly of his profit: for my part, he keeps me rusticallygoldenly of his profit: for my part, he keepes me rustically
As You Like ItAYL V.iv.174And fall into our rustic revelry:And fall into our Rusticke Reuelrie:
CymbelineCym IV.ii.100Yield, rustic mountaineer.Yeeld Rusticke Mountaineer.
The Winter's TaleWT IV.iv.84Our rustic garden's barren, and I care notOur rusticke Gardens barren, and I care not
The Winter's TaleWT IV.iv.710How now, rustics! Whither are you bound?How now (Rustiques) whither are you bound?

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Glossary

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baconporker, fat one; also: rustic
bacon-fed[= fed on bacon] rustic, peasant, hillbilly
beest-eatingdrinking the milk produced after the birth of a calf [considered undrinkable, except by rustics]
boorpeasant, rustic
carlotpeasant, rustic, churl
choughrustic, clown
churlpeasant, serf, rustic
clownyokel, rustic, country bumpkin; also: low comic character [in a play]
hempenin clothing made of hemp, rustically attired
hindboor, fellow, rustic, peasant
homespunwearer of home-made clothing, rustic, yokel
inlandin civilized society, not rustic
inlandcultured, brought up in society, not rustic
obstacle[rustic error for] obstinate
open-arse[rustic bawdy, from the shape of the fruit] medlar fruit
russetrustic, homely, simple
rusticallylike a rustic, in a countrified way
swain[contemptuous] rustic, yokel, fellow
swainrustic, country person, shepherd

Thesaurus

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rusticbacon-fed
rusticswain
rusticboor
rusticclown
rusticcarlot
rusticchurl
rusticchough
rusticswain
rusticrusset
rustichind
rustichomespun
rusticbacon
rustic, like arustically
rustic, notinland
rustic, notinland
rustically attiredhempen

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Words Families

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Word FamilyWord Family GroupWords
RUSTICBASICrustic adj, rustically adv
RUSTICPEOPLErustic n

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